What I’ve noticed

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What happens in the brain when people orgasm.  I thought it was especially interesting that different types of female orgasms look incredibly different in the brain.  With clitoral orgasms, the brain gets very very quiet – the article describes it as “widespread neural power failures,” but at least some non clitoral orgasms actually activate the emotional part of the brain.

Eugene Debs’ 1918 court speech.

Illdoctrine on the “gay rapper” question.

Because when we find ourselves believing killing a man makes us more of a man but loving a man makes us less of a man, it’s probably time to re-examine our criteria for manhood.

Fat discrimination in the medical world.

Cocaine and Thorazine – recommended for children.

Childhood obesity isn’t really an issue.  But hungry children are. I found this statistic particularly depressing:

two-thirds of all children growing up in poverty have one or more working parents, and one-third have a parent working full-time, year round

It’s unacceptable that people who work hard every day can’t feed themselves and their families.

Depressing chart of the day.

Flagstaff passed 5 resolutions to keep the bus system up and running and make it even better.  Hooray!

Most anti-immigration stances aren’t about making America better, they’re about ignorance and hate.

Comments

  1. Mike says:

    About illegal immigration, the right likes to pretend that illegal immigrants are devils stealing our babies, raping our women (even if they are women, somehow) and milking social services for every last cent while not contributing anything at all to the economy.

    The left likes to pretend that there are no consequences at all to massive influxes of people who possess a completely different culture, values somewhat at odds with both white and black mainstream America, and who are often wholly uneducated by Western standards.

    Both sides — as usual — are wrong.

    But most on either side will slag me for criticizing their side, while ignoring the fact that both sides are mired in their own ideological black hole. Neither side will compromise or convince the other side of anything, meanwhile the problem itself, and the half-assed “solutions” promulgated by both sides will make life worse for both the immigrants and citizens themselves. What a country we live in.

    Also, I noticed you intend to read Godel, Escher, Bach. I’d advise against it, if your time is valuable. It’s a hundred-page book stretched to a thousand pages. Most of it can be summed up in a few paragraphs, actually. YMMV, but I was not pleased to have read it.

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